Researchers have captured a number of deep space photos to put together a "comprehensive picture" of the universe's evolution.
They believe that the image could be the "missing link" in understanding star formation, according to a Space Telescope Science Institute (STScl) news release.
The findings were made thanks to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which has been traveling the cosmos for 25 years.
The image is a composite of several pictures taken by Hubble from 2003 through 2012, according to the release.
Researchers had previously looked at the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) in visible and near-infrared light.
This image used ultraviolet light to allow for a full range of colors.
"The lack of information from ultraviolet light made studying galaxies in the HUDF like trying to understand the history of families without knowing about the grade-school children," principal investigator Harry Teplitz of Caltech in Pasadena, California, said in the news release. "The addition of the ultraviolet fills in this missing range."
Ultraviolet light comes from the youngest and hottest stars.
Researchers can observe these wavelengths to determine which galaxies are in the process of forming stars.
The image captures at least 10,000 galaxies and goes back hundreds of millions of years, according to the release.
By analyzing these images in the intermediate time period it allowed researchers to understand how galaxies grew by forming collections of ultra-hot stars.
The only ray to finally accomplish this feat was by using a space-based telescope, according to the release.
"Ultraviolet surveys like this one using the unique capability of Hubble are incredibly important in planning for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope," team member Rogier Windhorst of Arizona State University in Tempe, said in the news release. "Hubble provides an invaluable ultraviolet-light dataset that researchers will need to combine with infrared data from Webb. This is the first really deep ultraviolet image to show the power of that combination."
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